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| Amazon.com: |
Introducing Fire, the First Smartphone Designed by Amazon — New breakthrough innovations—Dynamic Perspective, Firefly button, and more — Seamless integration with Amazon's vast ecosystem—over 33 million songs, apps, games, movies, — Only smartphone with Mayday, ASAP, X-Ray, and Second Screen
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Fire Phone compared with iPhone 5S, Galaxy 5S, One, Moto X, and Lumia Icon: unique software running on average hardware — Fire Phone against the world: can Amazon take on iOS and Android? — Amazon's unique software is running on pretty average hardware| MG Siegler / Medium: |
Amazon is first to offer free, unlimited, out-of-the-box photo storage with Fire Phone and the competition will need to follow its lead — It's No Longer A Smartphone, It's A Smartcamera — The truly disruptive feature of Amazon's Fire Phone — A few weeks ago, I lined up to take a picture …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
T-Mobile is setting a dangerous precedent for wireless net neutrality with its Music Freedom initiative — T-Mobile's ‘Music Freedom’ is a great feature — and a huge problem — It sounds great, but it's really, really, really bad — Net neutrality has seen headier days, and to be honest …
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See also Mediagazer| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
T-Mobile Offering Weeklong iPhone “Test Drive” To Lure Customers — Pulling a page from the car dealer's manual, T-Mobile is offering would-be customers a free seven-day trial of its network using an iPhone 5s. — “You (can) have a 7-night stand,” CEO John Legere said in an interview …
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| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
On T-Mobile, you can now stream music without hurting your data plan — Streaming music on your phone would be fantastic — if it weren't for all those pesky data caps. T-Mobile's latest UnCarrier move addresses this particular pain point: Starting today, you'll be able to listen … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Goes Down In Global Outage. Update: It's Back! — Facebook appears to be a suffering a major outage this morning, with the site unavailable in multiple regions around the world, and Facebook social plug-ins on other websites also acting up. — The Facebook.com site is unavailable …
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| Other World Computing: |
Teardown of Apple's new $1,099 iMac shows 8GB memory soldered to motherboard; will not be upgradable — Teardown of Lower-Cost 2014 iMac Reveals Soldered Memory — As we reported earlier today, Apple has released a new $1,099 iMac model with new specs including a 1.4GHz Dual-Core i5 processor …
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The Register, Computerworld, Primate Labs Blog, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, ITProPortal, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, Electronista, Geeky Gadgets, Other World Computing …, MacRumors and iMore. Tweets: @jsnell
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iPhone 6 likely to sport barometer & air pressure sensors to measure altitude, weather — Besides a larger display and redesigned metal body, details regarding which features the next-generation iPhone models will pack have been light. However, it appears that the new models could include a new sensor: a barometer.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Code Spaces closes shop after attackers destroy Amazon-hosted customer data — Code Spaces closes shop after attackers destroy Amazon-hosted customer data. — A code-hosting service that boasted having a full recovery plan has abruptly closed after someone gained unauthorized access …
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TechEye, Softpedia News, CSO Online, The Register and Gamasutra
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
BlackBerry Q1: $23 million in profit, beats analyst expectations — Summary: BlackBerry is in the midst of turning from hardware to services, and the restructuring appears to be fruitful. The company still experienced losses in Q1, but the financial result is not as bad as expected. — Charlie Osborne
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| Anton Geist / Dagbladet Information: |
NSA ‘third party’ partners tap the Internet backbone in global surveillance program — ‘Third parties’ give NSA access to international fiber-optic cables, sharing massive amounts of phone and Internet data, new Snowden documents show. Germany and, by all accounts, Denmark … | Chad Bray / New York Times: |
British Property Website Zoopla Valued at $1.5 Billion in I.P.O. — LONDON - The Zoopla Property Group, a British real estate listings website, was valued at more than $1.5 billion in its initial public offering in London on Wednesday. — The company priced its offering at 2.20 pounds a share …
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| Joon Ian Wong / CoinDesk: |
US Marshals Service leaks list of participants in the auction of 30,000 Silk Road bitcoins — CONFIRMED: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked by US Marshals — UPDATE (22:25 BST): Updated with comment from Lynzey Donahue, a U.S. Marshals spokeswoman.
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BBC, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, PandoDaily, Deep Dot Web, Reuters, Valleywag and Gawker. Thanks:@jeremybonney
| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
Nest investor Shasta Ventures raises $300M for its fourth, and largest, fund — Shasta Ventures Sticks to Basics With New $300 Million Fund — Tod Francis, a managing director of Shasta Ventures, recalls a time when few in venture capital were interested in “consumer” start-ups.| Gabe Nelson / Automotive News: |
Sources: Google revealing system to let in-car controls command Android devices at Google I/O — Google to reveal operating system that will rival Apple CarPlay — Gabe Nelson — WASHINGTON — Google Inc. will unveil its first in-car operating system at its annual software developer conference …
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Geeky Gadgets, Electronista, PhoneArena, TechnoBuffalo and Gotta Be Mobile
| Judd Legum / ThinkProgress: |
People Invested $1 Million In An App That Just Says ‘Yo’ — It only took 8 hours to build the app, and the only thing it does is allow you to send the word ‘Yo’ to your friends. To many, it seems like a joke. But its inventor, Or Arbel, is totally serious.
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Tweets: @pmarca, @joshelman, @nexttechblog, @scobleizer, @samfbiddle, @zpower and @dannysullivan
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
AMC Networks to launch genre-based subscription video sites this summer — AMC Plans Novel Move into Online TV — AMC Networks, which has vaulted into the first tier of TV programmers in recent years with shows such as “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad,” is preparing to break …
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Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. Tweets: @weberwest, @theinformation, @ericnewcomer, @jessicalessin and @pkafka
| Seth Rosenblatt / CNET: |
Google cheers growing support for ECPA reform — Years after Google first began raising concerns about the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the tech titan's efforts to get Congress to care might be bearing fruit. — Google is cheering for a small uptick of support for ECPA reform in Congress …
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